Volume 2, No. 1. January 11, 2002
Going with the flow
One of the dangers of being an improvisational
actor interacting with children is that your audience can hit you with a tough
question.
At Het Land van Ooit, a family park in Drunen, Netherlands, one of the characters
mingling among the young patrons is Sap the Juicy Root, who looks like a tree
root and lives underground. She emerges to tell children stories about trees
and plants.
After one such performance, a child asked Sap if she'd seen his grandmother,
who had been buried the week before. The actress, though taken back by the sad
question, didn't miss a beat. "Yes," she replied. "She's now a beautiful flower."